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The American Journal of Psychiatry, VOL. 130, No. 5

Articles | May 01, 1973

Legal Services as a Tool in Treating the Addict

JOYCE LOWINSON; JOHN LANGROD; LEWIS ALPERIN

Am J Psychiatry 1973;130:592-595.

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Medical Director, Methadone Maintenance Treatment Program, Albert Einstein College of Medicine-Bronx State Hospital, 1500 Waters Place, Bronx, N.Y. 10461

Director of Research, Methadone Maintenance Treatment Program, Albert Einstein College of Medicine-Bronx State Hospital, 1500 Waters Place, Bronx, N.Y. 10461

Counsel, Methadone Maintenance Treatment Program, Albert Einstein College of Medicine-Bronx State Hospital, 1500 Waters Place, Bronx, N.Y. 10461

1973, The American Psychiatric Association

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Since many patients in methadone maintenance treatment programs have legal problems, the authors suggest that such programs employ an attorney to help them. They discuss the attorney's role in allaying patients' anxieties about the legal system, in guiding them through it, and in educating the courts about methadone maintenance programs. They also present data on the kinds of offenses addicts in their program committed in a one-year period.

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